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“I’m curious as to how this structure changes your hand selection on the button.” Long before California legalized hold’em in 1987. I do know why it has survived the last 20 years. I don’t know how the three-blind structure came to be. But I do know when. A really long time ago. How did it get this way, and why has it stayed this way? Now it’s the cutoff’s turn, and after that, the action goes back to the original order of things for the second round of preflop action, which means the action does not go to the player left of the cutoff, which would be the big blind, but rather, it goes to the opener. Yes it’s a little bit complicated.

The player under-the-gun opens for the minimum, and the next player raises. The next three players fold. The action now skips over the cutoff, and the button is next to act. Let’s say the button folds, the small blind fold, and the big blind calls. Let’s say the game in nine-handed, and there is one kill out, posted by the player in the cutoff seat. When that happens, the minimum opening bet is $40, and before the flop, the $10 kill is next to last to act, and the $20 kill is last to act, no matter what their actual seats are. The player who posted the kill is last to act before the flop, meaning the action skips over him and comes back to him. It used to be that kills were allowed from all seats at all casinos. Now there are some casinos that do not allow the button to post a kill.įor example, in a $2-3-5 blinds game, one player could post a $10 kill, and another player could post a $20 kill. When a pot is killed, the minimum opening bet doubles. For example, in a $1-1-2 game, the kill amount is $4, and if a pot is killed, the minimum opening bet is $8. Here are the four main no-limit blind structures you’ll find today in the Bay Area:Īny player can put out a “kill” before the cards are dealt. The amount of the kill is double the big blind. (This means there are no free plays from the big blind.) The minimum opening bet is the sum of the blinds. The three-blind structure has a small blind and a big blind, posted by the two players left of the button, just like every other hold’em game. And it has an additional small blind that is posted by the player on the button. I intend to write blog posts about no-limit hands I’ve played or watched, so in this post I am going to describe the blind structure for future reference. So far this year I’ve been playing almost entirely no-limit hold’em almost entirely at Lucky Chances Casino, near San Francisco. This area of the country lays claim to lots of things that have never existed anywhere else, such as The Golden Gate Bridge, Jerry Garcia, and the triple blind structure in their no-limit poker games.

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